The name “Jim Crow” came from a white man in blackface. A white entertainer named Thomas Dartmouth Rice wrote a song-and-dance tune that became an international hit in the 1830s. By 1838 Jim Crow was introduced into the language as a synonym for Negro.
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The name “Jim Crow” came from a white man in blackface. A white entertainer named Thomas Dartmouth Rice wrote a song-and-dance tune that became an international hit in the 1830s. By 1838 Jim Crow was introduced into the language as a synonym for Negro.